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US hands over key Iraq province

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The US military is transferring control of Anbar province, once the centre of Iraq's Sunni insurgency, to the Iraqi government.

Major General John Kelly, commander of US forces in Anbar, and Anbar governor Maamoun Sami Rashid signed the papers at a ceremony in the region's capital.

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